This is Brian Lairor's Daily Politics podcast from WNYC Studios.

It's Tuesday, September 7.

I'm Jamie Floyd, Senior Editor for Race and Justice at WNYC, and I'm filling in for Brian today. And Shonatova to our Jewish

listeners. Today, President Biden is visiting parts of Queens and the town of Manville, New Jersey.

He's surveying the devastation caused by Hurricane Ida, as remnants of the storm hit our region,

killing dozens of people.

This will be President Biden's first official stopped to New York, and it comes five days

after the White House declared a state of emergency ordering federal assistance to supplement

local relief efforts. But as our colleagues in the newsroom reported over the weekend,

some residents are

still complaining that no official has yet been to their block days after the flooding.

Here's Woodside resident Litska talking to WMYC on Saturday.

We're just cleaning and cleaning and it's just, you know, there's like no help from anybody.

I don't know what's going to happen. I don't know how we're going forward. I don't know the city needs to do something. This is like blocks and

blocks of people, their homes. Since that report, the mayor and Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio

Cortez did make a visit to Woodside.

The city says it's working tirelessly to help New Yorkers who've been impacted by the storm.

And the city says people should go to NYC.com slash Ida.

That's NYC.gov slash ida for more information about assistance.

They've opened up emergency centers in each borough for people to get resources.

And as President Biden comes to New York, the debate over how to confront climate change,

via legislation rages on in Washington,

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